The people at Hasbro and the studio responsible for My Little Pony; Friendship is Magic have had, for quite a while, a friendly, amicable relationship. Hasbro has been very excited about the massive quantity of creative work coming out of the Brony community (videos, music, fan art, stories, even fan-created episodes like Double Rainboom and Snowdrop, among others). In fact, they've said that the reason they made the movie Equestria Girls was specifically because of the prolific "humanized pony" fan art going around.

It's been a great thing all around for both the fan community and for Hasbro's bottom line.

And then Hasbro's legal team sent a Cease & Desist to JanAnimations over his extremely popular Adventures of Button Mash, which uses a character from the show (one who appears for less than 4 seconds in each of only two episodes.) Worst of all, no one at Hasbro even knew about the C&D letter until someone asked them about it.

Hasbro has since been in talks with JanAnimations about letting him revive the Button Mash work he'd started.

And then Hasbro's legal team sent a C&D to the creators of the also very popular Mentally Advanced series.

Given circumstances like this, I sincerely doubt that Konami and its legal department have even ever communicated about Philanthropy.

These corporate legal teams don't know or care about the secondary effects of fan works. All they see is possible trademark dilution or Copyright infringement.

If the analysts they hire are really so lacking in integrity that a few weeks without pay will make them turncoat traitors, why were they hired in the first place? Why didn't their high-security background check flag them as potential turncoats?

GetPRSM.com isn't even trying to be subtle: Among the meta keywords are "Utah Datacenter" and "Parody." If you try to sign up, it pops up a dialog that says there are "technical problems" and links you to "technical support" over at the EFF website.

It even says "Made with love at Fort Meade" at the bottom and uses one of the famous pictures of the Utah datacenter.

Clearly, the FDA is at fault for a lot of this, and the Patent Office is clearly at fault for allowing the patent to be extended in this way.

What needs to happen, in my mind, is that the structure of the approval process needs to be inverted a little: When a pharma comes to the FDA with a new drug, making claims that it improves over another drug, then the FDA should have the resources from its own budget to perform the study and evaluation for efficacy, safety, etc., and then if the drug doesn't meet expectations, then the pharma should pay a fine for wasting the FDA's time, in addition to getting the approval denied.

In this way, the impetus is less on producing more drugs to extend patents and massive earnings and more on making more efficacious and safer drugs.

Getting rid of the shareholders' opinions in this matter would also be of great benefit.

There was a time before middlemen. In those days, in the age of monarchies, IPR benefited the monarchies, by giving the monarchy or aristocracy authority over who was permitted to be published, by their whims.

Someone on reddit pointed out that Amy likely has Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and is not necessarily bipolar.

ODD is characterized by four or more of the following behaviors for a period of at least 6 months:
(1) often loses temper
(2) often argues with adults
(3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
(4) often deliberately annoys people
(5) often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
(6) is often touchy or easily annoyed by others (7) is often angry and resentful
(8) is often spiteful or vindictive

Regardless of what you think about the show, this episode is a stark departure from the usual fare.

Right from the start, Gordon praises them for their spotless kitchen and well-organized fridge.

He then samples some of the menu only to discover that it's improperly prepared, that the recipes are confused, that the wait staff is regularly mistreated, and that everything goes into the trash, untouched by customers who wait literally hours for the food they ordered.